Emilio Insolera: Language

Emilio Insolera is Actor and film producer. Explore interesting quotes on language.

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“Italian language is not just sonore. It is also a visual one.”

Transcript of Emilio Insolera on Sky Sport 24 (September 12, 2017)

“From the director to the international cast, all of them are from deaf families for generations, while the film industry usually entrusts these roles to audacious interpreters that end up being bad imitators of the Sign language: as if an Italian actor was asked to act in Japanese by cracking down the tongue.”

Emilio Insolera

As quoted in Cinema. Quando il super eroe è sordo https://www.avvenire.it/agora/pagine/sordo(September 10, 2017), Avvenire)

“You can see the existence of these beautiful signed languages which are incredibly visual, and they require space, they require space to grow.”

Emilio Insolera

Transcript of Emilio Insolera on BBC Radio (October 9, 2017)

“A proficient signer can see accents in any particular sign language, even between, say, the south or north of Italy. Any actor pretending to sign in a movie stands out as doing exactly that: pretending.”

Emilio Insolera

Source: As quoted in Emilio Insolera. The film director, visual community member and activist is a man on a mission. https://www.kansaiscene.com/2009/12/emilio-insolera/ (December 1, 2016), Kansai Scenel)

“I myself regard the deaf people as superheroes, protectors of the visual language”

Emilio Insolera

Source: As quoted in «Sign Gene», al cinema arrivano i supereroi sordi mutanti http://www.corriere.it/salute/disabilita/17_settembre_12/sign-gene-cinema-arrivano-supereroi-sordi-mutanti-92d2f6a2-97cb-11e7-8ca4-27e7bbee7bdd.shtml (September 12, 2017), Corriere della Sera)

Emilio Insolera

Source: As quoted in Cinema. Quando il super eroe è sordo https://www.avvenire.it/agora/pagine/sordo(September 10, 2017), Avvenire)